Word: brashness
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PITY POOR William M. Agee. The brash, 44-year-old chairman of Bendix Corp. thought he had wrapped up one of the biggest business deals of all time last month when Bendix made a hefty $1.5 billion bid for the promising Martin Marietta Corp. But Marietta fought the unfriendly bid, other industrial giants stepped into the fray, and in the end the tables were turned on Agee A third company, Allied Corp., bought Bendix last Friday, turning Agee from conqueror to conquered in the space of a month...
...matchup is reminiscent of the classic Old West confrontation between a brash young gunslinger and the grizzled veteran with a dozen notches on his gun. William Agee, 44, the Harvard Business School whiz kid who heads the Bendix Corp., is facing a showdown with Harry Gray, 62, the seasoned hustler who began his career selling Dodge trucks for a Chicago dealership and went on to become a renowned conglomerate builder as chairman of United Technologies Corp. In the newest twist in a complex takeover struggle, United Technologies announced last week that it was joining forces with Martin Marietta Corp...
...stubbornly decides to abstain from voting. The move wins him an interview with Pope Paul VI, whom he lectures about the need for a new theology of sexual morality. Sean could use it himself: he has just spent two weeks in bed with Nora. Neither the interlude nor a brash period of liberalism prevents his rise, however, first to bishop and then, after a telephone call from Pope Paul, to Cardinal Archbishop of Chicago...
...gubernatorial race, brash Lieutenant Governor Mike Curb, 37, lost to Attorney General George Deukmejian, 53. Two weeks before the vote, when Curb was ahead in the polls, he sent out 500,000 letters accusing Deukmejian of disloyalty to President Reagan. The charge backfired: for one thing, Deukmejian had been a floor leader for Reagan when he was California's Governor; for another, it was discovered that Curb failed to register to vote until he was 29 and thus missed two chances to cast ballots for Reagan as Governor. The Democratic gubernatorial winner was Tom Bradley, 64, mayor...
...Hanky Panky had 30 or 40 more of them it might have been a congenial little picture. It certainly would have been better if Gilda Radner had not decided that for her next impersonation she would do a romantic ingénue. She is, in lantern-jaw looks and brash spirit, unsuited to playing such a role straight and apparently unwilling to parody it. Wilder seems so embarrassed for her that he tries to do the acting for both of them, with results that strain his normally funny interpretation of the coward who finds, if not grace, then shrewdness, under...